From the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (I’ve got my eye on the New York resources holiday bundle):

Save on gifts for your genealogist (even if that genealogist is YOU).

We have bundled together some of our most popular titles and slashed the prices to help you do all of your genealogy shopping in one place. Whether you are looking for one book or an entire series (or even a stocking stuffer), we have something for everyone and every price range. Bundles include books on a number of subjects, including the Great Migration, New York State, and NEHGS guidebooks.

You will also find discounts on exciting new titles such as Boston Beheld: Antique Town and Country Views by D. Brenton Simons and Gary Boyd Roberts’ upcoming Ancestors of American Presidents, Second Edition.

You can order online on our secure website at www.newenglandancestors.org/store/bundles.asp or call toll free 888-296-3447 and place your order with one our Member Services staff. And, if your order is over $150.00, we will take 50% off of your shipping cost!

Happy holidays from all of us at the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

You want to lock in your membership right now because the only way to guarantee the value-packed membership price is to lock in your membership now and get great Pajama Genealogy System content month-after-month.

Below are some great gift ideas–all under $20–for the genealogist or would-be genealogist on your holiday shopping list. For a complete list of our genealogy books and CDs, go to www.genealogical.com. Also be sure to check out our 50% or More Holiday Sale.

Paper Trees: Genealogical Clip-Art

This is a unique collection of hand-drawn family trees and charts which you can fill in and color by yourself.

Psychic Roots is all about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery.

Are you one of those users who wants to play with RootsMagic 4 before we actually release it? Well, now is your chance.

In mid-December we will begin a “community preview” of RootsMagic 4. This preview will be open to those current RootsMagic users who wish to try out a pre-release copy of RootsMagic. Keep in mind that the preview version could (I mean “will”) still have bugs in it, and shouldn’t be used for your real data.

But if you want a chance to play around with version 4, sign up for the preview at:

With the holidays coming up, we often get requests from our users about buying copies of RootsMagic to give as gifts to their family or friends. And this year the requests have really come in asking whether the new version 4 will be ready in time for Christmas. Well, there’s bad news and there’s good news.

Despite working 16 hour days trying to get RM4 out in time for Christmas, it looks like it probably won’t be ready in time.

BUT… here is this year’s 5th Annual Holiday Offer (with a special twist).

In what has become something of a tradition, RootsMagic owners can buy gift copies of RootsMagic, Personal Historian, or Family Atlas at our $19.95 upgrade price. There is no limit on the number of discounted copies you can buy during this limited time offer which will expire December 19, 2008. You will receive the full program as well as a registration card for each copyyou order.

And here is the special twist… every gift copy of RootsMagic 3 that you buy through this special offer will come with a free download upgrade to version 4 when it is released. So you will be giving version 3 now, with a free download of version 4 as soon as it is released.

PLUS! We are adding an offer we have never made before. In addition to the $19.95 special price, you can also order our RootsMagic Family History Suite (which includes RootsMagic, Personal Historian, and Family Atlas) for just $49.95 (that’s $90 worth of software).

The New England Historical and Genealogical Society is excited to offer a new research package to help beginning genealogists get started with their family history. The “Family Discovery Package” makes a great holiday gift for a loved one, or even for yourself. Using information that you submit, our expert genealogists will begin the work for you and provide suggestions for additional research.

This special package includes:

*1.5 hours of an NEHGS expert genealogy research

*1 year subscription to New England Ancestors magazine

*1 copy of RootsMagic genealogy software

*2 free day passes to continue your research at the NEHGS library in Boston